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Healing and Wholeness: The 18-Inch Journey from Head to Heart
âThe glory of God is man fully alive.â âSt. Irenaeus
âGod does not love some ideal version of you. He loves youâwith your particular history, wounds, and desires.â
This episode takes you on what may be the most important journey of your life: the 18 inches from the head to the heart. Through the story of Blaise Pascalâs mystical night of fire, the gentle wisdom of Harveyâs Elwood P. Dowd, and the wisdom of the Church, we explore what it means to become an integrated personâone who lives not in fragmentation, but in communion.
We are not just minds or spiritsâwe are embodied, emotional, historical persons. And while trauma, generational wounds, and spiritual lies may have fractured our inner life, God is drawing us back into wholeness. This is not a journey of perfection, but of integrationâof learning to live fully alive.
Youâll hear about:
The role of the family in shaping our early spiritual imagination
The wounds that distort identity and the lies we carry into adulthood
How emotional maturity, spiritual direction, and community lead us to healing
How God re-parents us through His Word, His Church, and His sacraments
This episode is an invitation to courageously face the inner story youâve believedâand to let God write a new one with you.
Reflection & Journaling Questions for PrayerWhere in my life do I live more from my head than from my heart?
Where do I hide behind intelligence, control, or performance rather than love, vulnerability, and trust?
Have I made the 18-inch journey from being right to being real?
What would it mean to let go of needing to prove myself and instead seek communion?
What were the spoken or unspoken rules in my family growing up?
(âDonât feel,â âBe perfect,â âNever be weak,â etc.)
What emotions were welcomed in my childhood? What emotions were avoided or punished?
What role did I play in my family system?
(Hero, invisible one, peacekeeper, rebelâŠ) How does that still shape me today?
What is one lie I have believed about myself?
(âI am only loved ifâŠâ; âI must always⊠to be safe.â)
Ask: Where did I learn this? What is the truth that God wants to speak there?What pattern have I inherited from my family or past that I want to bring into the light of Christ?
Pray: âLord, show me where You were when I felt unseen.â
Which of lifeâs tasksâwork, friendship, or loveâdo I tend to avoid?
Ask: Where do I need more courage to live generously and not self-protect?Do I see emotional strength as a way to protect myself or to give myself away?
What would it mean to see my strength as a gift for others?
What private logic or internal script still shapes how I see myself, God, and others?
Bring one of those to prayer. Ask: âJesus, walk with me through the rooms of my childhood. What do You want to show me?â -
Living in Divine Communion: The Heart of Spiritual Health
In this episode, we explore the foundation of spiritual healthânot as a religious add-on, but as the very core of what it means to be fully human. Drawing from Scripture, the theology of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and the ache of the modern soul, we reflect on how our deepest wounds and longings are not problems to fix but invitations into divine communion.
We examine what happens when we try to create ourselves apart from Godâand how returning to our true identity as beloved sons and daughters brings clarity, peace, and wholeness. Through stories, reflection, and practical wisdom, this episode invites you to abide in Christ, reorder your desires, and live from the inner room where God dwells.
Spiritual wholeness isnât about perfectionâitâs about presence. Not about doing moreâbut about dwelling more deeply in the love of the One who made you.
At the end of the episode, youâll find 10 journaling prompts and reflection questions to help you live out what youâve heard. Let this be more than a listenâlet it be a turning point.
âDo I approach prayer as a relationship or a task?â
Reflect on your experience of prayer. Is it a checklist, or an encounter with Someone who loves you?
âWhat do I most deeply desire?â
Trace your strongest longingsâare they leading you closer to God or away from Him?
âWhere am I trying to create or prove myself rather than receive my identity from God?â
Explore the pressure you may feel to be self-made. What would it look like to rest in being Godâs beloved?
âDo I live as though I am chosen and loved by Godâor as though I must earn love and prove worth?â
Consider the emotional tone of your daily lifeâperformance-driven or grace-rooted?
âWhat spiritual lie do I hear most oftenâand what truth does God speak instead?â
Identify one recurring falsehood (e.g., âI am unlovableâ or âGod is distantâ) and counter it with Scripture.
âWhere am I off course by âjust one degreeâ in my spiritual life?â
Is there a small misalignmentâlike distraction, a neglected habit, or spiritual driftâthat could, over time, distance you from your true destination?
âWhat do I do when I feel disillusioned or disappointed?
Write honestly about times youâve been let down or hurt. Where can healing begin?
âHow do I abide in Christ throughout my day?â
Make a list of practices or reminders that help you stay rooted in Himâfrom Scripture, silence, music, to sacrament.
âWhere do I resist Godâs love or hide from it?â
Reflect on places of shame, fear, or control. What would it mean to allow God into those places?
âIn my life right now, where am I being called to surrender, not try harder?â
Ask: Is this a moment for disciplineâor a moment for deeper trust?
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Holy Trinity Sunday 2025
What do a baffling university quote, swirling incense, and the mystery of the Trinity have in common? More than you think.
In this episode, we begin with Fr. Robert McGuireâs infamous âRed Zingerââa cryptic saying meant to puzzle and provokeâand follow its thread into the deepest mystery of the Christian faith: the Trinity. Drawing from ancient philosophy, modern skepticism, and a splash of incense smoke, we reflect on why mystery isnât something to solve, but something to enter.
God is one, and God is threeâand that paradox isnât a bug, itâs the feature. The Christian claim isnât merely that God loves, but that God is love. In the Trinity, we discover not just a doctrine, but an invitation: to imitate the divine rhythm of love, self-gift, and communion.
We also confront our modern allergy to mystery. What canât be measured, predicted, or tested is often rejected. Yet the deepest truthsâlove, meaning, beauty, even Godâcanât be placed under a microscope. They must be lived. They must be received.
So pour a cup of coffee, breathe in the mystery, and letâs step into the rhythm of realityâone that canât be seen with the eyes, but is revealed in the smoke, the symbols, and the stillness.
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Pentecost 2025
Graduation season is a time of givingâgifts to celebrate, to remember, and to send forth with love. But what if the greatest gifts we receive arenât wrapped in ribbons, but in the presence of the Giver Himself?
In this episode, we explore the love language of gift givingânot as materialism, but as the sacred act of saying, âYou are seen. You are loved. You matter.â We then turn to the most profound gifts of all: the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, given by the Paracleteâour Advocate, who stands beside us as we step into the unknown.
Let this be your commissioning: to carry these gifts boldly into the world.
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In this opening episode of The Road to Wholeness, we begin with a mapânot of streets and cities, but of the human person. Drawing from St. Teresa of Avila, Benedict XVI, and the deep wells of Christian anthropology, we explore what it means to be made in the image of God. Before any healing can begin, we must remember who we are: someone, not something. This episode charts the terrain of the soulâour intellect, will, and capacity for loveâand lays the foundation for a journey of restoration, not into self-perfection, but into divine communion. Itâs not self-help. Itâs grace.
Here are some journal and prayer prompts to help you dive deeper:
What lies have I believed about myself, God, or others that keep me from living in the truth of who I am?How do I respond to beauty when I encounter itâin art, nature, or another person? What does that response reveal about my soulâs longing?
When was the last time I felt truly seen and known? What did that moment teach me about communion and trust?
What rhythms or practices help me live from grace rather than striving for control or perfection?
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This episode reflects on the quiet aftermath of great missionsâwhether in war, in the early Church, or in our own lives. Drawing from a scene in Band of Brothers, the Ascension in the Gospel of Luke, and a moment from Black Hawk Down, it explores the kind of silence that follows profound revelation. Not a silence of fear, but of purpose. The Apostles didnât retreat after the Lord ascendedâthey returned to prayer, to wait, and then to go back in. So must we. This homily is a meditation on that return: the hush before the mission continues, a mission that flows from the Ascension of Our Lord.
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In this episode, we journey into the heart of the interior lifeâwhere sonship is not just a theological idea but a lived identity, rooted in the truth of Godâs love. Fr. Searby explores how misbeliefs about ourselves and others become strongholds for spiritual distortion, and how forgiveness and spiritual warfare begin in reclaiming truth. This is a call to detach from the lies of the enemy, re-align our hearts with the Fatherâs voice, and live in the radical freedom of those who know they are deeply loved.
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This episode explores the deep, sacred power of memoryânot as nostalgia, but as a living, active force that shapes who we are. True remembrance, inspired by the Holy Spirit, makes the past present and meaningful. In the Church, memory is not just intellectualâitâs spiritual, personal, and redemptive. Through the Mass and the quiet reminders of grace, we are invited to remember who we are and carry that fire into the world.
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If Only For Once It Was Completely Quiet
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Rest for Your Soul: Sabbath Wisdom for a Summer of Renewal 2025
This episode explores the sacred power of stillness in seasons of change, from the quiet âRoom of Tearsâ behind the papal conclave to the quiet mornings of our own lives. Drawing on scripture, saints, literature, and films, we uncover how Sabbath rest is more than a break, itâs a threshold, a healing, a celebration, and a taste of eternity. Whether through Tolkienâs Shire, a walk by the river, or a meal with loved ones, this is an invitation to rediscover time as a divine gift, not a task.
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Feast of St. Bernadine of Siena 2025
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3rd Sunday in Easter
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A talk to young adults about the death of the Holy Father and the Conclave.
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